Catherine Wagner is never not doing something interesting, it seems, whether it’s photographing hidden corners of Oakland’s Mills College Art Museum for 2018’s Archeology in Reverse series or using film canisters from the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s to recontextualize the history of movies in 2024’s Moving Pictures.

Mostly she works behind the camera, which I guess you’d expect from a photographer. But that’s hardly a limit; in the catalogue for Wagner’s latest show, Blue Reverie (through January 10 at 500 Capp Street, SF), curatorial and organizational director Lian Ladia writes “For Wagner, a photograph is never a document. It is scaffolding, a construction, an act of arrangement.”

Wagner is also fascinated with architecture, calling it the container for everything,

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